Books & Paper Arts Calendar Updates - February 2024
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- Haystack Mountain School of Crafts 2024 catalog of summer workshops available
- Registration for Focus on Book Arts (FOBA) opens at 8AM (PST) on Monday, Mar 4, 2024. The 15th Focus on Book Arts conference offers five full days of workshops that appeal to beginning as well as advanced book artists. Workshops are taught by renowned, professional instructors in the fields of bookbinding, printing, decorative papers, paper making, book art, and more. This year’s event will be held at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, OR
- Ah Haa School for the Arts announce their spring and summer adult workshops
Me ke aloha nui - Jade
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Book & Paper Arts Calendar | Book & Paper Arts Newsletter
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Sections below:
Things to do in the area |
Call for artists/ entries/ proposals/ submissions |
Bits & bobs about paper/ books/ tips/ trips |
Musings and Meanderings |
Resource List |
About the calendar |
Housekeeping
2023 Shanghai International Paper Art Biennale - now until Feb 27, 2024 - more information on the Paper Art Biennale - video
The Eye Gallery (117-1132 College Drive, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) [yes, there is a gallery at this optometry] - Cathryn Miller - Forty Days - now until Feb 29, 2024
Peters Valley School of Craft travel program is offering travel to Mexico for Craft, Culture & Cuisine - Feb 28 - Mar 8, 2024
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK - Scottish Landscape Awards - now until 3 Mar 2024
The Chicago OrigamiUSA Convention 2024 (COcon) returns Mar 8 - Mar 10, 2024 - registration open
Kalamazoo Book Arts Center (KABC) - The Illustrated Accordion 2024 - in person, now until Mar 15, 2024 or online gallery
Santa Fe Community College’s Visual Arts Gallery (6401 Richards Avenue, Santa Fe, NM) and Santa Fe Book Arts Group - Celebration of the Book - now until Mar 22, 2024 - if you can't make the exhibit click here to view the artwork
Cape Cod Community College - Higgins Art Gallery (West Barnstable, MA ) - Cape Bound: A New England Book Artists Members’ Exhibition - now until Mar 22, 2024
Lansdown Gallery, Stroud, UK - Fully Booked – the art of the book - Mar 13 - Mar 22, 2024
Maine Media Workshops + College - An English Odyssey: Oxford, England Book & Print Intensive - Mar 16 - 23, 2024
Port Angeles Fine Arts Center (Port Angeles, WA) - Stronger Together- An ArtistBook Collaborative - now until Mar 24, 2024
San Francisco Center for the Book (SFCB) - A Radical Alteration: Women’s Studio Workshop as a Sustainable Model for Art Making - now Mar 31, 2024
The Museum of Early Trades & Crafts and The Book Arts Roundtable - Booked 18: See/Ing exhibit - now until - Mar 31, 2024
Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA - Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines - now until Mar 31, 2024
Spark Gallery in Denver’s Art District - Printed Page IV will be on view from Mar 28 – Apr 21, 2024
MAKE Southwest, Paper Artist Collective and GF Smith - PULP - now until Apr 30, 2024
World Forestry Center, Portland OR: Suze Wolff's State of the Forest - now until Apr 30, 2024
Center for Book Arts (New York, NY) - Exposition littéraire autour de Mallarmé - now until May 1, 2024
Center for Book Arts (New York, NY) - Hello Thank You Come In: 50th Anniversary Members Exhibition - now until May 1, 2024
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild Ottawa Valley Chapter at Carleton University, Macodrum Library - Save The Date - Ottawa Book Arts Show - May 25, 2024 - information coming early 2024
Minnesota Center for Book Arts main gallery - Shift-lab: Ten Years of Collaboration - now until Jun 1, 2024
San Francisco East Bay Art Open Studio - Jun 1 - 2, 2024 and Jun 8 - 9, 2024
2024 Paper/Print/Book tour of Northern Italy - led by Lynn Sures, Artist, and Giorgio Pellegrini, Fmr. Director of the Museum of Paper and Watermark - register here - Jun 3 - 14, 2024
Book Arts in Venice with Kalamazoo Book Arts Center - Jun 4 – Jun 15, 2024
The Gallery at Penn College, College Ave., Williamsport, PA - Books Undone 2: The Art of Altered Books - May 30 - Jul 21, 2024
Oceanside Museum of Art (Oceanside, CA) - Allied Craftsmen: Hands On Design - Mar 30 - Aug 18, 2024
Hiromi Paper, Culver City, CA - 2024 Conservation Washi Tour - Sep 7 - 14, 2024 - $3200/person ($500 deposit required to reserve a spot) - meet and observe Japanese papermakers, and experience the art of washi first hand by visiting various papermaking villages in Japan's countryside. Tour includes an itinerary of conservation focused papermaking studios, toolmakers, museums, and shops. Transportation, breakfast/dinner and 8-night accommodation included - please note, this is an intensive tour with daily visits to conservation-centric papermakers and is not a conventional sightseeing tour - contact Yuki at yuki@hiromipaper.com for more information - Participants are responsible for their own round-trip flights - limited spots available
Call for artists/ entries/ proposals/ submissions
Websites for calls for entries for all mediums and online juried shows:
- Call for entries management and jury system entrythingy.com
- Find calls https://www.callforentry.org/
- Colossal (international platform for contemporary art and visual expression that explores a vast range of creative disciplines) opportunities
Call for entries: Books Undone 2: The Art of Altered Books - deadline: Feb 29, 2024 - application
Call for exhibitors: Tropic Bound - Feb 6 - 9, 2025 - application details - deadline: Jul 31, 2024
Call for Submissions: Printed Matter, New York - Decolonisation, Resistance & Solidarity - is actively soliciting artists’ books, zines, and print ephemera that engage with ideas of decolonisation, resistance, and interconnected solidarity around the world - accepted submissions will be distributed online and in-store - this is an open, rolling call - there is no deadline for submissions - to view a selection of titles that speak to these themes - their submission guidelines
Bits & Bobs about paper/ books/ tips/ trips
Note: If you want to inspect a hyperlink to see where it may take you, mouse over the link and in the lower left corner of your screen the status bar will show you where the hyperlink would take you. On smartphones or tablets long press on the link and a window will appear with that information
Sarah Bodman - Book Arts Newsletter - Impact Press at the Centre for Print Research, UWE Bristol, UK - more book arts related events in the UK, EU, EEA and some USA - latest edition and back issues
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art’s (BIMA) - Artist's Books Unshelved: full play list here
John Neal Books - upcoming online calligraphy classes
Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking - A Story Of Forgotten Hanji, Korean Traditional Paper: The Restoration of Taeji and Siji or if you prefer reading about hanji
The 2024 KABC Illustrated Accordion online exhibit is available!
YouTube will auto translate the video and present you with auto generated captions, even when the original uploader doesn't add the language you need - you can use these with the Peter Baumgartner videos I have included below
Gothic binding by Peter Baumgartner - feels like a mesh of buttonhole and long stitch binding
Booklet with pocket by Peter Baumgartner - loved how he used the edge of his cutting mat to square up his pages as he was folding them and then he used his guillotine to cut his fore edge down to size
Make your own piercing cradle from book board or corrugated cardboard
11th annual exhibit of "everything a Book can be", Unbound features Artists' Books, and 2-D and 3-D artwork made of, from and about books
Freestanding business card holder - while you're at it how about a collapsible tool holder - great for creating while traveling - blizzard boxes to corral your tools on your desk or when you travel on page 77 in Hedi Kyle's Art of the Fold book
Byopia Press's variations on a star book: little star book 1; little star book 2; little star book 3; Star Book 2023 or Pages Don't Have o be Rectangular
I remember seeing my first snowflake when I was 19. I had heard about this amazing form of precipitation, snow, growing up in the tropics but to see one land on the back of my hand was an especially surreal moment - here are 17 more snowflakes to enjoy
Potential book structures translatable from handmade cards: Sliding pages; Double Z-fold but the creator calls it Up Down Up; Zig zag pop up card; Push Pull Fall Card; Pull Tag Card; Secret Message Card; Never Ending Card - same never ending card but all faces are the same
How to name a flexagon by Matt Parker (Numberphile) is at the 10:35 mark and everything before that makes a hexa-tetra-flexagon without glue - however if you do use glue it ends up being a tetra-tetra-flexagon
Our journey through life through a series of folds and drawings
Since we are not too far away from February 29th I thought I would include an explanation from Neil deGrasse Tyson on YouTube on why we have leap days
University of North Carolina/Greensboro demonstration on how to measure and make some of the enclosures used in libraries for protection and preservation - video - PDF instructions
Using origami as a gateway to math - learn how to make a sonobe unit in origami, and unlock a world of mathematical wonder
Did you know you can check out a free day pass to over 200 California state parks? Visit your local Los Angeles County Library to borrow a pass and start exploring!
Paper craft ideas that redefine the standard use of paper - love the koi fish made out of a US currency bill - amazing! I only know how to fold a shirt with a tie
Bookbinding terms, materials, methods and models from the Traveling Scriptorium, a teaching kit by the Yale University Library - PDF version is online - contains sections on materials of Medieval bookbinding; terminology; Carolingian, Romanesque, Gothic, and limp bindings; and a comprehensive bibliography - can be downloaded and printed if desired
Tulip cube instructions by Mahyar Hossein Khani and video assembly by Jannie van Schuylenburg
Alas both Rachel Hazell adventures in Love Letter in Paris have sold out but you can still send a love letter to someone you know, even yourself
Using hundreds of layers of paper to tell a story
Would you take a trip to see an iceberg?
Credit/business card holder/wallet or a cover for a book
A few days after sending out the January 2024 newsletter I was off to Tucson to attend a long awaited Ed Hutchins' workshop, "Chowing Down on Content". I had such a lovely stay with Laura R and seeing Ed again was delightful. His workshop was everything I expected and with lots of surprises built in. We introduced ourselves in one sentence and it was entirely up to us as to whether it was true or not. Not sure how he did it but he was able to pull out content from me from long lost memories one of which from when I was 9. We made a pamphlet stitch book with a self closing cover to hold our prompts, our snippets of stories. Along the way he gave out what I call "mailings" you got to open and read out loud. They were wonderful affirmation that we were enough, that we mattered and that we could write. We also received sealed envelopes cut in half so we could place these pockets in our books to receive our mailings, stickers, stencils, etc. that we also received along the way. After we were done we received a beautiful certificate conferring us with the licence to write. I cannot wait to attend his "Secrets of Paper Animations" to learn his secrets on how he puts his magical moving spins on his books! Oh! Lunch was also provided to allow us to continue to get to know each other and exchange more stories. It was wonderful meeting so many people from Tucson Paperworks. I had the best reaction when someone found out I was that "Jade" and received a punch on the arm in her delight (I hope it was delight) at meeting me. I will treasure that punch. Bonus - thanks to Steve R.'s recommendations a new coffee place was found with cappuccinos thoroughly delicious and enjoyed. Looking forward to getting my coffee from Savaya again.
A couple of weeks later I got to attend a Sol Rébora workshop - Link Structure In Paper. I was thinking about going to CODEX for the day in between workshop but I had to think about recovery from all my adventures. I enjoyed driving down to San Diego again leaving at 6am to get there by 8:15am with even time to pick up a breakfast burrito and coffee halfway through the trip. I remember many a drive down to San Diego to attend workshops and mentioning my newsletter when I first started. This trip the thoughtful barista asked if I wanted to try their latest flavor in my flat white - vanilla and rose. Gosh! It was yummy. This is one of those rare times when I do get up very early in the morning in order to travel for an adventure! What a cool and unusual structure to connect 2 or more books together using their covers. I did not have to go far to pick up a flat white and flavored with yet another new flavor - piloncillo. The baristas, Gerardo, John and Jorge were all most kind to to me and made perfectly balanced flat whites. I'll have to come to more workshops at the Athaneum in San Diego! I also had lunch with my zine group and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the many stories being told. I wish I could have stayed longer but I had another small errand to run and had to get out of the San Diego before the weekend traffic leaving San Diego got really bad.
Something unexpected happened - my husband, Bill, wanted to learn origami!! We had a couple of lessons on basic folds and bases and then set him loose on the Univeristy of YouTube. Unbeknownst to him (well he knows now) I am always going back many, many times to see a part that confused me or did not catch despite looking intently at a PDF. Even though I had been folding casually since I was 6 it can sometimes take a while for me to "get it". I had to gently remind him that I had been folding for a bit now while he has been folding for a month! I also had to confess to him that not only am I a slow folder but am also a terrible one as I am just awful at folding diagonals and any angles other than 45° or 90°. But what I can do is finesse the paper and make the folds more accurate as I can "feel" the paper with my fingertips. I am looking foward to folding the more complicated structures together.
See you next month!
Resource List (maintained in my Dropbox account - close popup to view document). Documents are saved in Word format (.docx). If you do not have Microsoft Word you can use Microsoft 365 to save a copy
- Organizations where I gather my workshop information
- Teaching opportunities
- On-demand workshops with pre-recorded videos and/or kits
- Favorite paper places (I am not affiliated, associated, authorized, endorsed by, or in any way officially connected with any of the companies listed. I merely enjoy their products and fantasize about what I can buy)
- Central place for artist residencies - all mediums Pyramid Atlantic now offers a paid internship opportunity for college or post-college artists
- MFA programs in the US (updated annually in early December) - due dates, points of contacts, programs offered and admission requirements
Link to the calendar (If the link to the left is not working copy this URL - https://teamup.com/ksd9e12a80c3878ba5 - and paste to your browser)
- The time listed in each entry will be the listing organization's time zone - if a virtual/online workshop a time zone converter link will be listed in the description area - if in another country a currency converter will be included as well
- There is no difference between In-person1 (blue entries), In-person2 (red entries), In-person4 (purple entries) and In-person 4 (green entries) or Online1 (orange entries), Online2 (light teal entries), Online3 (light purple entries) and Online4 (blue grey entries), just a way to visually separate workshops; pink entries are for festivals or conferences; yellow are public online meetings from various book arts guilds and museums
- To change views in the calendar: For laptop/PC/tablet locate the 3 bar or hamburger button (≡) upper right corner and select .. Day .. Week .. Month .. List; for smartphones select the 3 bar button and make your selection as above
- To move backwards or forwards in time in the calendar: For laptop/PC/tablet locate "Today" in the upper left corner and click on the single left facing arrow to back one time period (based on what view you have selected) and single right facing arrow to move one time period forward; for cellphone locate the ">>" button and to the right of that will be the single left & right facing arrow
- To search by keyword look for magnifying glass. If one class is sold out search for a unique word from that class to see if another is available, for example, "masu" or "Sheehy". Do check out that organization's workshop calendar for other disciplines/mediums being offered
- The calendar is updated as I come across information and you have 24x7 access to it
- You can add any calendar entry to your own personal calendar to help you keep track of meetings and workshops you will be attending. On any interested entry either right click or touch & hold down your finger on the selected entry for a couple of seconds, select Share then select which calendar (Google, iCal, Outlook) you wish to add to. Be sure to update the time to your local time zone
For more information:
- Video from NEBA mixer
- Video from PSBA meeting
- Video for calendar discussion with Sara Siggelkow NPBAF Education Manager - the 6-minute mark is where the discussion of the calendar begins
- Would you like to schedule a zoom session to discuss the ins and outs of the calendar? I would be happy to set one up with you - email me at jsqcentral-workshop@yahoo.com
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